Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1933 — Page 1

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IF HOOSIER fc CLASSIC Jis UNDERWAY 64 Teams Will Be Kf t In Running By Night ■■YU R PLAYS ■ ELMHURST AT I 9 Fort Wayne Scores ;‘4. Monroeville 19. Side 26. New Haven 14. 5..1- 32. Woodburn 11. H J 28. Ho (gland 26. Cents: 20. Leo 17. 2s. Monmouth t; M Bluffton Scores 23. Cheater 12. 3fr. Monroe 13. . v Hartford Twp 6 (half) Ksketb.ill is kitii’ in liuli■totlay anti tomorrow. ■av ojieiK'ti tn 63 section-Ktiti-rs ttxiay in the tinnua I Hina hit’ll school athletic Htialmn basketball toiir--9 Three games were Hi last night in the Gary Honal. started one day H' to eliminate the necesHnt names Saturday Kino. starting field this year tutly 6| trains will remain running Saturday night, tourneys March 11 will field to 16 teams, these 9* competing in the final at Indianapolis March 17 H South Side Wins Mnh Side's easy 26-14 victory ■te New Haven Bulldogs sea- ■ opening play in the Fort sectional this morning. HHot’* ll had been figured to Ms-nth Side a close battle and ■ critics looked for an upset F gsme t Archers held New Haven lies- in the tir«t quarter, at tame time running tip seven A South Side led at the 15-3. and at the third quarter New Haven failed to click if time during the game. First Upset tola, playing the first game. W he opening upset of the Mui by defeating the MonroeCubs in a hard-fought game, ill Arcola led 13-10 at Ihe Md at the third quarter. 18konroeville rallied in the Period to come within one At 19-18 hut Arcola finished Easy Victory "th Side closed the morning * with an easy 32-11 triumph i Woodburn. The Redskins k the half 19-5 and Coach 1 wed substitutes freely dur the last half kh Side and South Side will iat 8:30 tonight In one of the I* games of the Fort Wayne •urrtNiniyn ni« page ■1 CHOSEN MSESPEAKER inis Representative Lil Lead House In Special Session “hington. March 3. — (U.PJ ter elect Henry T. Rainey of today prepared to use ®vrm methods to jam Presi•teet Roosevelt's program , the house in the coming W session. entrenched in control of house, the new speaker anted that legislation asked by Wsevelt would be put through f(j s and all other matters ex- * har consideration of non-ad-"fation proposals he indicate at only those committees ary to handle the Roosevelt 'vould be organized in the a session. is Dei. ocr tic caucus which "alney as speaker also adProposal for an all-power leering committee which will m Put through the new arthiiiv ;hort order RTlKued ON~PAQIi;*TWO**

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Vol. XXXI. No. 53.

Invite Women To Democrat Meeting Mrs. Chat les Knapp, president of the Democratic Women’s organization in this city, invited al) women to attend the meeting to be held r ; this evening in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. i Judge Huber M. DeVoss will be the principal speaker and will dis/cuss city government. Jndge De ’.Voss is a former nr yor of Decatur land is -an authority on municipal questions and topics. MRS. BUSCHE IS RE-ELECTED Mrs. E. W. Busche Is ReElected Economics Club President Mrs. E. W. Busche of Monroe was re-eleced president of the Adams County Home Economics • ‘ Clubs at a meeting of the leaders held at the Hatchery buliding in • Monroe. Thursday. Miss Meta I Martin, home economist from ■ Purdue University conducted the • meeting. Mrs Fred Bluhm and Mrs. Henry Bowman were chosen vicepresidents: Mrs. Dale Moses, see- ■ rotary and treasurer, and Mrs. Lester Kerr, news reporter. Mrs. Busche presided over the ' meeting which opened with the ■ singing of the club song and the i reciting of the club creed. She . read the new constitution of the I Indiana Home Economics Asso- ' ciation. I At the noon hour a basket din tier was served. During the afternoon session plans_ for the year were TTTseussed. and the present ’ year's work will consist of remo.t- ■ eling old clothes, shoes, children's t clothes, and dress and accessories. Miss Martin gave several points > in good taste in dress. She said I it is becomingness plus simplicity, t it is knowing the mew and using ( CnNTINHHn OV PAGF TUHffIC ROOSEVELT TO FULFILL PLEDGE President-Elect Holds Conferences With Senate Leaders Today , Washington. Mar. 3 — (U.R) — I Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ready to assume the presidency ot the United States within the next 24 hours, prepared today to carry out ’ his pledge of a ‘‘new deal" in government with the utmost t speed Almost immediately on his arrival. Mr. Roosevelt called DemoI cratic senate leaders to his hotel . for discussions calculated to round ■ out the drastic program he has in mind for economic rehabilitation. | The conferences were continued today between calls on President Hoover and the widow of the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh, atlor-, ney-general designate. I The banking situation, which I Mr. Roosevelt has been watching for two weeks, was taken up with senate leaders. ! That Mr Roonevoit is ready to drive first toward economy was i evidenced in his appointment ot H.enry Morgen-lhau. Jr., of New York, as chairman of the federal farm board One of Morganthau's first tasks will be to consolidate all federal farm rtelief agencies under the new board. ! Friends looked for Mr. Roose- ’ veil to name before iuauguratiou —————■» -■•■■• ( f mNTTKT’FO OM PA OF p TVE Thomas Ehinger And Family Move Here Mr. 'and Mrs. Thomas Ehinger and family of Fort Wayne are moving here. Mr. Ehinger becoming ' associated with his brother. Leo 1 "Dutch” Ehinger in the conduct of the latter's insurance agency. Mr. Ehinger, who was recently appoint- ' ed a state parole agent, will neces- ' sarily be out of the city much of the time 'and his brother will look ' after the local office. Mr. Ehinger [formerly lived here. The family will occupy the Ehinger residence, cor- ’ 'ner Monroe and Fifth streets.

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SECURE BEET CONTRACTS FOR EIGHT THOUSAND Field Superintendent Announces 8,000 Acres Have Been Secured CLOSE CAMPAIGN WITHIN 10 DAYS 0 — * MEETING CALLED — James Elherson. president of | , | the Chamber of Commerce to- J > day called a meeting of Deca- j I tur business men for Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, for the pur- ; pose of cooperating and otter- , | ing any assistance in securing the local beet acreage. ’ 4 e 11 J. Ward Calland, general field superintendent for the Central Sugar Company, announced today that lontracts for growing beets now total 8,000 acres. > “The success of the cam- 1 paign is assured,” Mr. Calland 1 stated. “The only regret we have is that more Adams ( county farmers have not conI traded’ to grow beets. We have i less than 2,000 acres in the county and would like to have at least 3,000,” Mr. Calland stated. ! 1 Fieldmen are calling on Adams county farmers this week and it is believed several hundred acres will;’ be obtained. The campaign will close within the next 10 days and < ■every-wppwrtnnrty with he £>»*•«- U»-, locel farmers to contract. More than the 12,000 acres needed to assure the operation of the j local factory, could be secured i 1 outside territory, Mr. Calland stat- j ed. but the sugar company wishes to have the acreage as near home as possible. The cost ot 'trucking the beets and looking after the crop during the growing season is less and local heel glowers can profit more than tlie farmer who has a heavier haulittg expense, it was pointed out. Details pertaining to the furnishi ing of labor, fertilizer and seed will be explained to farmers interested . if they get in touch with the local I office. Before the campaign closes Adams county farmers will be giv- t en first chance to contract, Mr. Calland announced. Mr. Calland e lained that every ' township in the county lias soil adaptable to the growing of beets. ' The largest acreage so far contracted comes from Blue Creek township, with Monroe township second ' in the list. When it is considered that Adams county has more than 1208,000 acres of land, divided into 1 more than 2,100 farms, the per- ' : centage desired for beet growing is very small. Based on 10 acres [to the contract, it would taKe 300 farmers to raise the 3.000 acres. (CONTINt'KH ON PAGE FIVE) o _ ! GOVERNOR GOES TO WASHINGTON McNutt Will Attend Inauguration; May Adjourn Saturday Night Indianapolis. Mar/ 3.- (U.R) The [ Indiana house and senate handled , the wind-up of the administration ! program today while Gov. Paul V. McNutt had gone to Washington for the presidential inauguration. Possibility of adjournment to-1 ■ morrow night speeded work of the, I two houses. ' The governor left at 11 o’clock 1 last night, confident that the re-1 malnder of his program would be carried out in his absence. How ever, the airplane of Thomas D. Taggart, Democratic national com tnitteeman, will be at his disposal In Washington for the four-hour air tri] in case of necessity. Mrs. McNutt accompanied the governor to Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McHale, Logansport, also are in the party. McNutt left despite the fact that administration forces suffered their ' ' CONTlji UeL’ ON 7xo® FOUR’ ‘

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 3, 1933.

Girl Found Slain w I HlMUlll I glfflWKfefo * Hawk X7 g ' ' ’ K . -1 J mill, ’ wSM 10 WRWpRh W 3b 9 Beautiful Aldine Younger, 23-year-old heiress of Pontiac, Ilk. was found dead early Wednesday morning on a gravel road two miles outside of that city. Ashere Earl Bentley. 35, and a member of one of the oldest families of Polndac, was arrested in connection will) the death of Miss Younger.

Commy Whiteman Is Buried Today Funer.il services were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon for Commy Whiteman. 58. who died Wednesday at his home tlhree miles northeast of Bryant after an extended illness. Services were held '.it the Macklin church, with burial in the Daugherty cemetery. Hie deceased is survived hy a son Ernest of Portland; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Lehmai of Geneva; three brothers. John of Elkhart, Joseph of Bearcreek township. Orange of Indianapolis; and one sister. Mrs. Rosetta Pyle ot Geneva. NATION MOURNS SENATOR WALSH Body of Prominent Democrat Senator Is Returned To Capital Washington. Marell 3 —tUP) —A group of high government officials silently mourned today at the bier of the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Dem., Mont., while the city was gay with flags for the inaug nral scene at which he was to have beet: a principal actor. The body of the much loved senator was returned to the capital last night, accompanied by his tearful widow whose honeymoon became a sad cortege. President-elect and Mrs. RooseVeit arranged to call on Mrs. Walsh today to extend their sympal ay. The train bearirg the body of the man Mr. Roosevelt chose for the attorney generalship was met by rvavTIKI'ED GN PACE THREE

To Adams County Farmers The Central Sugar Company of Decatur would like to have at least 3.000 acres of beets raised tn Adams County. Up to date less than 2.000 acres have been contracted in this county. Fleldrien are calling on Adams County farmers this week and every effort will me made to see those who are interested in beet raising. The success of the acreage campaign is assured, because in many counties fanners wish to rajse more beets than the quota assign ed to the county. For instance, in Van Wert county, Ohio and in Allen county. Indiana, contracts total about 2,000 each and fieldmen state 3,000 acres can be obtained in each county. Local farmers, company officials point out. can raise beets cheaper than farmers in other counties, because of lower trucking charges to the mill. before the campaign closes the sugar company wishes to give Adams county farmers first chance to contract. If interested will you please fill out the coupon below and mail it to the local office. A representative will be sent to explain the Contract and other questions pertaining to labor, furnishing of tools, fertilizer and seed. CENTRAL SUGAR COMPANY. Decatur, Indiana. I am interested in raising beets and have acres available. Please send a repro ontative to explain contract. My' farm Is located In township, section Name Address If your neighbor is interested, please give us his name.

28 STATES ON MORATORIUM Twenty-eight States And District of Columbia Make Restrictions. — Washington, March 3—(UP) Pi esident-elect Roosevelt today formally denied New York reports that he proposed to issue statement on finances. (By United Press) A statement on the hanking situation embracing the combined I views of President Hoover and President elect Roosevelt was exI ; pected in Washington today ns 2S states and the District of Columbia ! restricted withdrawal of bank deposits. Wisconsin, Utah and W.ishington joined the states with special banking holidays during the night, after Idaho had declared a 15-day . moratorium yesterday. i Following is a summary of bank moratoriam ami withdrawal re- . strictions in the various states: California Three-day holiday declared, March 1. ■ Tennessee—Five-day holiday deEGNTTNEEn GN PAGE STX <y — Moose Lodge Donates 1,090 Pounds Os Beans Dr. Burt Mangold, president of the Decatur Emergency Relief Assosiation. reported the receipt of 1.001) pounds of beaus from the Decatur Moose lodge The beans will be jput up in three pound sacks and distributed among the needy.

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TAX AMENDMENT BILL IS SIGNED BY GOV. McNUTT Bill Reducing Limit To $1 Signed Last Night By Governor OTHER MEASURES SIGNED THURSDAY In<li:inai)olis. Mttr. 3 (U.R) ; I'lie $1.50 Iti.x amendment bi'l reducmi’ the limit Io $1 on property outside cities and towns was sit>ned last nii’lit bv Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Although the bill contained an emergency- clause and became effective at once, the $1 rate for rural properly ; can not. be. put into effect for tax ! ’iayinents until May 1934. Payments for this year have; ! been set. Proponents of the new law also i : were happy today over the pro-; (vision for county boards of taxi ’ adjustment. The new law changes :he boards from three members of county; ' i councils, county auditors. and three freeholders appointed hy i circuit court judges to consist of I j seven members, one a county ■ councilman chosen by the council, and one representative each of I township trustees and school ■ cities or towns and civil cities or i 1 towns and three free holders, al! II six to be named by the judge. County auditors will serve as ; secretaries of the boards without -.noting power. The |1.5il and $1 rates may he exceeded hi case of emergency or necessity but the hoards must report reasons for the excess. McNutt also late yesterday ; signed the bill authorizing the' CGVTTNt’En OX PAGE EIVE STUDENTS ARE SENT LETTERS Pupils of Two Local High Schools Receive Letters From Townsend : Students of the two Decatur high . schools who visited the general assembly al Indianapolis, Satur . day. received letters yesterday from M. Clifford Townsend, lieutenant- - . governor, in appreciation of their ■ interest. j The letter to the public high school rear!: "Dear Mr. Dorwin and Friends: “The Indiana State Senate was > I pleased to have you as a guest and we regret that the rush of business before this body prevented us from ■ extending to you further courtesies. ' "We trust that you will pursue your school work in such a m.m- --' ner that you will become a vain-' 1 able citizen and a credit to your school. “The Senate is now wrestling 1 with the problem of raising rev ' jenues equitably from the citizens j- ; that you may have every opportun-: ' ity to prepare yourselves for eiti- ( zenship. "Trusting that a member or mem -' bers of your school may be honor- 1 ed at some future time by being a member of the Indiana General; Assembly, I am. "Yours truly, “M. Clifford Townsend, "Lieutenant Govenor.” In introducing the civics and; sociology class Senator Thurman Gottschalk of Gerne stated, “this (, is the tirst time 1 have had the ( privilege of introducing a class . from Adams county.” ( The members of the Catholic cov-rtKr'En nsi page ~tTRWE Nichols Shoe Store To Open Next Week The Alva Nichols shoe store will open for busi ess next week in the Dailey building, formerly occupied < by the John T. Myers store. Mr. 1 Nichols is moving bls stock of goods from the Studabakcr build ’ ( ing to the new location and will be i .ready for business in the new store J 'mext week. <

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Initiatory Ritual Is Given Thursday The initiatory ritual of the Monroe Hi-Y Boys club was exemplified before members of the Deca’tur Rotary club at the regular meeting Thursday evening. Max Bahner was the candidate and the officers of the club conferred the work. The officers of lhe club, the only one of its kind (in the county tire. Gordon Sprung(er, president; Ernest Schwartz, (vice-president; Glen Stucky, secretary, Roger Bluhm, treasurer and (Lewis Hendricks, guide. Virgil Wagner, principal of the ; Monroe high school inaugurated the Hl-Y club a few years ago. COMMISSION TAKES OFFICE New Public Service Commission Takes Office This Morning ■lndianapolis. March 3 — (UP) —[ I Gov. Paul V. McNutt's new public (service commission took office to-1 day. Perry McCart. Paoli attorney who ‘ had been chairman of the commis- ( sion following his appointment by McNutt in laaruary, will continue as chairman. Moie Cook, I.ogansport manufacturer, is the only Republican member of the new body. The commission reorganization bill signed by the governor yesterday afternoon requires that one of the three members be a Republican. It reduces the commission personnel from five to three. Samuel Trabue, Rushville mayor, is the third member. Sherman Minton, New Albany attorney. is public counsellor, a new post created by the reorganization hill. He will represent the public in rate cases. Two republican members of the 'old commission were retired. They are Ralph M. Young. Muncie, and Howell Ellis. Indianapolis. The commission consisted of five men until McNutt took office. John W McCardle. Indianapolis; Jere West. Crawfordsville, and Harry K. Cuthbertson, Peru, resigned Fred I. King. W.ibash, R., will be retired as secretary of the commission. The new commissioners will get J 6.000 a year instead of $5,040. The secretaryship, for w hich no appoint-; ment has been made, will pay $3,- ‘ 6?0 instead of the present $3,240. Employes of the commission, almost unamimopsly Republican, will be dismissed and replaced by Democrats. The commissioners and the; employes are removable at the Governors will. it— —_—— New Songs Feature Unemployed Show New songs, jokes and dialogue will feature the Elk’s minstrels and revue to he repeated here Sunday. March 12. lhe proceeds of which will he- given to the unemployed. Clayson J. Carroll, interlocutor, | announced today that an entire; new bill would be presented. The I end men will have a hunch of new jokes and several special features will be included in the presentation. ( The minstrel will be given in ( the Catholic high school auditorium ‘ and tickets will be sold hy the unemployed for 25 cents ea<- >. o Roosevelt To Speak On Legion Program Franklin D. Roosevelt and Louis Johnson, national commander of the American Legion, will speak over an NBC radio hookup Sit (lay night during the Legion's Loyalty .Celebration. The program will be; on the air from 10:30 to 11:45 pm C. S. T. The feature will be relayed over stations WLW, Cincinnati, and W'JR. Detroit. . o Leo Kirsch Named Distributing Agent Leo Kirsch has been named local distributi: g agent for Phillips 66 gasoline and oils. The company recently purclr sed the S ell supply tanks in the southeast part of the icity and several stations now supplj the motor trade with the g.is and I oil.

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' OVER 200,000 CROWD STREETS OF WASHINGTON Inaugural Tomorrow Is Expected To Be Greatest In History MAKE PREDICTION OF FAIR WEATHER Washington. Mar. 3.—(U.R) — More than 200,000 visitors ‘ thronged the capital’s streets today for the nation’s mightiest inauguration. The official celebration ot i democracy’s triumph at the polls after 12 years of Republican rule began last night in the historic hall of the Americas of the Pan-American building. There the Marine band blared martial airs a( a concert for inaugural guests. Today the army and navy massed crack units at Fort Myer and at the navy yard for drills and demonstrations to entertain visitors. Fair weather, with moderate wind, was predicted by the weather bureau for the ceremonies qnd parade tomorrow. At the Hoover [inauguration four years ago rain (drizzled through most of the day. Two rain-splashed trains slid to a stop in the union station last night. One itore President-elect Roosevelt, members of his family j and triumphant Democratic lead ers. The other carried the body of Senator Thomas J. Walsh, whom death struck down a meager 48 hours before he was to be sworn in as attorney-general in the Roosevelt cabinet. Out of deference to Walshs ! widow —a bride of less than a week —Mrs. Roosevelt announced curtailmetu of the inaugural social program. She will not attend the in(augural ball tomorrow night nor the governors’ reception tonight. A White House luncheon tomorrow was cancelled. Almut 1,200 seats in the stands 'erected along Pennsylvania avenue are unsold, but the inaugural com- ; mittee was confident they will b« occupied when the parade swings down the avenue tomorrow afternoon after Mr. Roosevelt has been sworn in as president. With the number of visitors (climbing rapidly toward 250.000. it. is estimated 40,000 will be able to see the parade from the grandstands. The great and the obscure rubbed elbows today along the sightseeing lanes. Hollywood contribliLied Joe E. Brown. Laura LaPlante, Betty Davis, and Tom Mix. Jack Dempsey represented pugilism and Eddie Dowling the stage i Virtually every state sent its governor or a representative. Members of Hie Roosevelt cabinet eith|er already had arrived or were on (their way. Hotel men reported every room booked and visitors were routed to private homes where they .paid $4 a day for rooms. All the law-enforcement agencies (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITION Blood Transfusion Thursday improves Certtiak's Condition Miami. Mar. 3.—(U.R) — Fortified by a blood transfusion. Mayor An- ( ton J. Cermak, victim of an assassin's bullet intended for Presidentelect Roosevelt., was “resting comfortably” today in an oxygen room set up in Jackson Memorial hospital. His physicians were encouraged by a noticeable improvement, but they emphasized that lie was still "a very sick man." Dr. Frederick ■Tice last night notified his encouragement into this terse statement: I “Mayor Cermak is much better (this evening than this morning." A bulletin issued later said he had slept most of the day. but had received a transfusion of .500 cubic centimeters ot blood "for its general stimulating effect." and an injection of glucose for nourishment. Both colitis and pneumonia, which had alarmed physicians, wore re ported diminishing. ■ "Some hope of recovery may be offered,” the physicians concluded